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...Impetus for the three-part ballot came from within the Student Council last week after a handful of petitions demanding only a new vote on the Radcliffe News question had been turned down by the Council because they dealt with only one of the three decisions in dispute...
Birkhead named the Hearst-McCormick-Patterson press as part of "powerful financial interests" giving impetus and support to groups professing racist theories. "Our greatest danger," he said "is that, because of our fear of communism," we may fall into the arms of those men who supposedly "will save us from...
...fill of office work since the war's end. For 18 months after his return from London, he was chained to a modernistic desk in CBS's main Manhattan office, as vice president in charge of public affairs. His aggressive, imaginative programming supplied much of the impetus that has made CBS first in the field of public service programs. Among the impressive list of Murrow-inspired projects: the Documentary Unit, CBS Views the Press, As Others...
Only Fit for a Saga. Like Pytheas, the Vikings, who roamed from Novaya Zemlya and Spitsbergen to Greenland and Newfoundland, were too far ahead of their time. By the15th Century, when their own exploratory impetus was spent, their Arctic trade-routes and their flourishing Greenland colonies had become mere fantastic stuff for sagas...
...must further examine the value of UMT in terms of the United States' traditionally non-militaristic role in world affairs. Even if UMT would from a well-trained, efficient, aggressive nucleus for a future army to fight a future war, it could not heop but provide simultaneously an additional impetus to the complicated forces that are inexorably herding the world toward hostility, aggression, and unless halted, towards eventual conflict. The United States has traditionally avoided peacetime conscription. Consequently, the adoption of UMT would be tantamount to an admission that we consider peace more precarious now than it has ever been...